detectives

Describes the qualities and skills useful to the amateur detective, and explains how professional methods may be adapted to the amateur's needs.

An alphabetically arranged book about sleuths and scoundrels of fact and fiction. Also shows how to set up a home crime laboratory, dust for fingerprints, and more. Some of the entries are meant to be jokes and therefore, not to be taken seriously.

Discusses the importance of observation and the uses of disguises in detective work.

Discusses the investigatory work preformed in laboratories using such clues as fingerprints, tire tracks, bullet holes, and artist's sketches.

When Wild Willie's best friend Kyle moves back to the neighborhood the boys suspect that Kyle's new house is haunted.

Presents casebooks for ten mysteries taken on by twelve-year-old Max Finder and Alison Santos and encourages the reader to solve the cases; and features "The Case of the Basketball Card Foul," "The Case of the Snake Escape," and others; and includes additional puzzles and the solutions.

A detective shares his recorded collection of strange and funny criminal cases with his friends, changing names and places to protect the innocent.

Describes what you need to know to be a detective, discussing how to collect information, send messages, and use disguises.

Throughout a series of adventures, ten-year-old David "Ali Baba" Bernstein spends most of his time thinking about becoming a detective and getting a dog.